The Innocence of Evil

First Love Can be Murder

Love, Secrets and Murder... An older woman. A troubled boy. A deadly pact. It is the summer of 1960. J.F.K. is making his historic run for the White House. The young Mohammed Ali is winning gold at the Rome Olympics and Alfred Hitchcock is terrifying movie audiences with Psycho. For teenager, Bobby Forbes, it is the summer of forbidden love and lost innocence. At the sleepy lakeside resort of Pheasant Point, Bobby is hired by the seductive, thirty-eight-year-old artist, Phoebe Quine, to pose for a painting. In the sweltering heat of those high summer months the troubled boy and the damaged older woman begin a risky, obsessive affair that soon begins to cost lives... Also by the same author: Tammany Hall: Graft Murder and Politics in old New York. And... The Music of Melancholy. A Gothic tale of obsession and horror.